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...Music. Not only is their aim a very pretty one, but it is splendidly carried out by their conductor, Arthur Bodanzky. This musician, who also directs the orchestra at the Metropolitan Opera House, is distinctly a great personality. Tall and gaunt, with the characteristic long face and high forehead of a musician, he is a bundle of nervous energy and fire. He is by temperament a scholar, even an austere scholar, whose greatest devotion is unearthing gems out of the dust and debris of music. As an example: He is giving a year's work to the orchestration...
...first onslaught, the Navy dropped out for $100,000,000, claim- ing they could not cut a cent. Agriculture promptly followed by dropping out for their $25,000,000 announced in the Secretary's letter. Beads of perspiration formed on my forehead, and I regret to say profane ejaculations characterized by vocabulary. Secretary Mellon, who joined me at the office, joined also in the perspiration, though naturally a cool man." In spite of Navy and Agriculture, Dawes finally found $305,000,000 to save...
...states that in the "Contemporary Civilization" course, taken by all freshmen at Columbia, a "prepared instrument" for testing achievement was successfully employed. Does this mean that some day we shall be satisfying the requirements in English by reciting a given number of lines from Shakespeare with calipers across our forehead, a thermometer in our mouths, and a stopwatch in our hands...
...fact, we operate upon them without taking the stretchers out from under them, so as to spare them the pain of being moved. They have all had morphine so that they are usually comfortable. It is a wonderful blessing. Each one has a cross marked with iodine on his forehead, showing that he has received his injection of serum to prevent lockjaw...
...game was unusually rough at times, White '19 receiving a severe gash on the forehead from a collision with Fox of Yale...